Minister of Works, David Umahi, has described the 2023 election, in which President Bola Tinubu lost the Southeast, as an accident of history, and it will not repeat itself in the forthcoming election.
PrimeTimes Nigeria reports that Umahi stated this while inspecting the ongoing construction of Abaomoge/Akpoha/Afikpo road in Ebonyi state.
Umahi said he will work with Ebonyi State Governor, Francis Nwifuru, to deliver 95% votes to Tinubu in the 2027 general election.
The Minister said no President can execute the magnitude of projects Tinubu is executing in the state and the entire South East, and challenge anyone who has done something for the region to prove it.
Umahi further stated that the state will run aggressive campaigns to secure Tinubu’s support and reward him for what he has done for the state.
He said, “I use this opportunity to ask our leaders to come out and speak out, you know, because we shouted marginalisation, but now we are not marginalised by the President.
“Let me tell you, there’s no other ministry in this administration that is as big as the Ministry of Works, and it’s being handled by an Igbo man, so what a trust, you know, and without the Ministry of Works being an Igbo man, maybe we have some projects, but it will not be this magnitude.
“And so, I think that the President is very strategic, you know, in getting Southeast people to the mainstream of Nigerian politics, and so we have to be wise.
“I have not even started shouting about the good things that the President is doing in the Southeast. I’m ready to engage anybody; let the person tell me who else would have done this, if not the President.
“You see, in this Ebonyi, working with Governor Nwifuru, we will shock the nation, because we will deliver 95% of our votes to Tinubu; we have no reason to give it to any other person. Let the President tell us what he has done for the Ebonyi people, and we shall vote otherwise. The last general election was an accident of history, and it will not repeat itself.
“We are going to mount a very serious campaign to let our people, the young ones, the elites know that this is our chance, this is our time, and if we strategically and constructively engage, then our time is coming, and you know, when that time comes, when I say this is our time, it’s our time to get wiser, and then work with the President, and that will quicken our time, and nobody will stop us.”